[Tcl-bugs] [ tcl-Bugs-999612 ] safe-2.* : bogus tests

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Bugs item #999612, was opened at 2004-07-28 13:28
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Category: 33. Safe Base
Group: development: 8.5a2
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Don Porter (dgp)
>Assigned to: Don Porter (dgp)
Summary: safe-2.* : bogus tests

Initial Comment:

It's not clear to me what the tests
safe-2.* are trying to test.

It is clear that as written, they
raise failures whenever an
interp makes use of aliases.

[interp alias {} foo {} bar] has
proven to be very useful, and
I don't see a good reason for
Tcl's test suite to prevent
Tcl itself from using this
facility.

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>Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2004-07-30 23:29

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safe-2.1 disabled on the HEAD.

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Comment By: Don Porter (dgp)
Date: 2004-07-28 13:40

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ok, with that interpretation,
only test safe-2.1 is bogus.

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Comment By: Kevin B KENNY (kennykb)
Date: 2004-07-28 13:37

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If we, instead, interpret these tests to mean,
"test that a newborn interp has exactly the aliases
that it's supposed to have, no more and no less,"
they're valid tests for today's Tcl, which installs
no aliases by default.  They could, of course, be
upgraded if we started to use aliases within Tcl
itself.

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